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Finally deleted my LinkedIn account!

After putting my account into "hibernation" for the past few weeks, I finally closed it. But I'm still looking for work. Thankfully I can still find positions (SRE and software dev) by just going directly to the company's site and finding a Jobs page.

Good luck to everyone else out there looking for work!

@privacy

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Went through a couple comments of both „still use it“ and „dont need it at all“.

We need a fedi linkedin clone

Its again totally obvious that we need a fediverse linkedin clone, especially geared towards work, with a full cv function, option to hide your personal data until you approve a future employer, ways like mastodon for companies to prove they are legit to even be able to see a persons personal data so they dont dox themselves to some rando.

I cant do it on my own but willing to help

I‘m unable to set this up so please take the idea and run with it. Probably just a mastodon fork tbh with specific features. If anyone feels like doing this and needs business knowledge from an entrepreneur/CEO perspective, lmk.

Thank you for reading and have a good one!

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Federated means democratic. We‘re on lemmy because free association. Its obvious that all other social media, including work related, should be federated, in fact it should be outlawed to have anything public-non-federated. We need to destroy all walled gardens.

On the other topic of personal data: the critical data like real name, home address, phone number, email address, former employers etc. should absolutely not be federated, thats a need to know basis.

The public profiles are the same as mastodon and don’t constitute personal data in my book: your skills, the industries and length of employment.

The important part is that you can put your personal data on an instance (which might or might not be your own) and encrypt it so nobody except you can read it and if you get an offer, the future employer gets an encypted view of your data which could also be on auto delete if the job falls through.

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Thats no issue. You can make only public data federate and use p2p for sensitive data.

Public would be your skills, some text about yourself, your industries and amount of employed years in each industry without dates or companies.

Think of it like a puzzle. First part the employer gets to see. They can search „java dev 5 yrs exp“ and get 100 peeps, in state/country/remote, for xxx$ per year/month/hour.

Then they can send you a request but only if they have authenticated through their own public website like on mastodon. If you accept, they can ask you questions and talk. If you reach common ground, they can request your full cv which could be self deleting or something in case the job falls through.

Its not a perfect system but its a lot safer than sending a cv per unencrypted email imo. or answering to some rando on linkedin. Also, anyone who knows you can find you on linkedin with your clear name. Its totally crazy to decline the potential of such a project in light of the current situation.

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I‘m not shouting. I‘m using proper headlines.

I could also not care less what you would or could do.

haui_lemmy ,
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That would be both frightening and funny. But I dont know which one is more.

haui_lemmy ,
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Yes.

I‘m interacting with you. That doesnt mean I care. I would care if you had anything constructive to offer, so feel free to start.

haui_lemmy ,
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Feel free to help. I just spun something up. Whoever else is interested, dm me.

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Yeah, there we really have to agree to disagree.

You will always have silos of control and that is a good thing. The fact that makes it democratic is that you have access to it. If you dont like the rules of the instance, you move or spin up your own.

What you‘re saying is just everyone for themselves, diverting the already thinly stretched attention of fedi-capable folks even more.

Again, I think its okay to disagree. I‘m just saying „but i want“ is not a valid reason to reinvent the wheel imo.

Our problem is not a system, it is certain behavior of certain people corrupting the system until itself becomes the problem. The solution is not bringing down the system but outlawing the behavior (the dark triad) because although I consider myself a leftist and close to anarchism, I recognize that we have a lot of narcissists and psychopaths in that space as well. Those who are willing to take any measure to bring the current people in power down to take power themselves. Bullying people into submission is no different than being rich and paying them for it.

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Its you again! Your signature always identifies you instantly.

I agree that linkedin is shit. Any form of alternative would be good but honestly, I‘m not using any social media that isnt democratic anymore. So my only chance at it is making it democratic.

Have a good one.

haui_lemmy ,
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The fact that its so heavily geared toward crypto makes me uneasy. Otherwise it seems like an awesome idea.

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Reading this I remembered that stupid apple is now forced to let us sideload on iphones. I just kicked off the ios update to enable it.

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Element is not a solution, it is a client. Matrix is the protocol. Discord happens to provide both in a spectacularly privacy disrespecting way imo.

I know of two chat protocols which are quite popular: matrix and xmpp. Matrix seems to be the more flashy but also more energy consuming part. Xmpp is very old and apparently has been EEEd by google at some point which is the whole reason matrix exists imo.

As clients go, you can use one of dozens of them, each different. Element (and element x) are made by people who also are involved with matrix but run a for profit company as well so beware. They also make contributors sign away their rights if they ever wanted to take element closed source which is a red flag.

I mostly use fluffychat which isnt perfect but works very well imo. I also have bridges on my matrix server (i use synapse) which connect whatsapp, signal and discord for the folks who dont want to switch over but want to talk to me. This makes is convenient for me and I still have encryption and control over my data in the pure matrix chats.

I cant comment on running xmpp bc no experience but reports say its very fast. Running your own matrix server or using a known host means you have no ads, no tracking, e2ee and you will likely always know where your data goes.

Thanks for reading and have a good one.

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I havent even bothered with it yet but my router has individual settings for internet access for devices. You can even set them in homeassistant. A other idea might be pihole since it works as dns in my home. But that also makes a lot of it absurd because the phone home function on a lot of these is blocked by pihole anyway.

haui_lemmy ,
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Interesting approach. Thanks for elaborating. The current copyright rules might be legal but they are both wrong and broken. Companies should not have the right to hold or enforce copyright at all, only the people involved in a project, which means all of them. Then there should not be companies larger than 999 mil which takes a lot of this dystopian shit out.

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Thanks for chiming in! Non-electronic and secure are going to be interesting things to consider, especially in combination.

Bank safe isnt totally out of the question but I would like to avoid them if I can. Second location wouldnt be impossible but offline doesnt mix in well with that since my family is a mess.

If one was to make a hobby out of this I can imagine peeps putting their secrets in plain sight but make them uninteresting for the uninitiated.

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Great idea! Thanks will check it out!

The old phone trick is neat as well. I happen to have multiple devices at home. I might just make one a backup.

haui_lemmy OP ,
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Thanks for this info! Very helpful!

haui_lemmy OP ,
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Thats what I had in mind initially. Probably not a bad solution either. I might check aegis. Need to see if its available for my phone.

haui_lemmy OP ,
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Yeah, makes sense. Thanks for mentioning it

haui_lemmy OP ,
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Great suggestion. Thank you very much.

haui_lemmy OP ,
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Neat! Now we‘re talking! :))

Jk, but this is actually pretty cool.

haui_lemmy OP ,
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Very awesome! I think we‘re getting somewhere on the „whats the best practice?“ thing. Having two separate databases isnt very hard to do but it is rather secure i suppose.

haui_lemmy OP ,
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Pretty awesome setup! Thanks for sharing.

haui_lemmy OP ,
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Pretty awesome insight. Thanks. Do you happen to know any books about security philosophy so to speak? I mean best practices in cybersec but mostly how to think about ideas and how to implement those in business and or at home?

haui_lemmy OP ,
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Matches what I‘ve seen so far, sadly.

haui_lemmy OP ,
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Awesome! Thanks. The idea of only using aliases is pretty insane but also great! :)

haui_lemmy OP ,
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Good suggestions imo! Thanks! Will do.

haui_lemmy ,
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Me too on the „need backup“. Any idea how to go about that? I know some sites have backup keys for otp but I have no process for storing then and avoiding a bind (like storing the 2FA for my vault in my vault and getting locked out).

I will probably have to play through scenarios or is there a comprehensive guide on this (probably)?

haui_lemmy ,
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I‘m still working on my setup so your considerations are most helpful. What stands out to me is the option to use an airgapped old crappy laptop to provision the keys. Ideally one with manually disabled modems. That way nobody without physical access should be able to compromise it.

Also, how can you provision your own hw keys?

haui_lemmy ,
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Thanks for the heads up! Great suggestion!

haui_lemmy ,
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Can relate. I‘m getting a bit fussy bc of the otp being on my phone and backup keys being spotty and stored indiscriminately atm. Any idea how to solve that without embracing the lock out scenario (storing the keys in a vault locked by one of the keys)?

haui_lemmy ,
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Okay, thanks for elaborating. My vault is also on my home network only with an insanely long password.

But since someone tried breaking into my network recently I felt like I might need to harden up a bit.

In a professional environment I would obviously be much more paranoid but my home server is for tinkering so I dont expect perfection.

I would like a better setup for the vault and otp though. Like, if I store the admin otp key in the vault, I would be unable to retrieve it and get admin access which is bad. Theoretically, I could just store it in an encrypted file with the password stored in the vault.

But I‘m not sure if that is best practice. With my backups I try my best for 3-2-1 backups procedure so I‘d love to make it easy and reproducible for myself.

Long text, sorry. Thanks for reading.

haui_lemmy ,
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Thats my configuration as well. I didnt think of the cache. Thanks for mentioning it.

I do think having the mfa on there is risky as you factually disable mfa with it imo. Its basically 2 passwords in the same place.

2nd issue: my vault has mfa as well for the admin account which I cant store in there for obvious reasons.

So in combination I‘ll probably use a second vault to store these to keep them seperate. Will check out aegis for this.

haui_lemmy ,
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Pretty good idea with the yubikey. If they werent 50 bucks I‘d get one but thats a little much for an optional security device that has this one function. Still neat though.

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Understandable. I‘ve had a recent „near miss“ if you will and since then I thought I might wanna check my security as a whole. So maybe I‘ll end up with that as well.

Is it possible to use generated keys as a login option on websites btw? I know its usable for ssh and git but i dont know about other sites. If you made one key for each site, they could never leak your password as they dont have it. Would be a ton of work though.

haui_lemmy ,
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Thanks for mentioning that! I‘ll probably need to check that out then.

haui_lemmy ,
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Neat! Thanks for this.

haui_lemmy OP ,
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You can doubt all you want. I changed it from 777 to 700 and back again because it broke. Couldnt find the user in the container immediately. Will probably just migrate it to a volume and be done with it.

haui_lemmy OP ,
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Yeah, I dont feel like setting up a whole cloud infrastructure on a hunch. I‘m running like 15 different services and they are all compartmentalized. It would take weeks to reset all this. So far nobody got anywhere from what I can see.

haui_lemmy OP ,
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Wow, a lot of people would set up a new server because of intrusion attempts in a log i guess. If I did that in a job I‘d get fired for doing nothing else but resetting everything every week.

As an admin, you have to keep the CTO from using „master“ or „admin“ as the ssh password on a production server. Just so you know what level of stupidity makes the big bucks out there.

haui_lemmy OP ,
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Good for you. What permissions do you have on etc/dnsmasq.d if I may ask?

haui_lemmy OP ,
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Thanks for checking that. I will change the permissions accordingly and restart pihole to check if it works. Probably later today.

haui_lemmy OP ,
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I get your point. Ansible is quite interesting too. I do document most of the things I do but I have to admit I have been slacking a bit, recently. There is just so much stuff that needs doing and a lot of interesting projects to learn about that sometimes stuff gets forgotten.

My personal impression of the linux space is still that folks get dumped on by the community for not being immersed in the nitty gritty though.

Thats neither fun nor will it work to get more people interested in linux. People make mistakes, learn to help without judging.

Have a good one.

haui_lemmy OP ,
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If everything works well, I could probably do that too. But I‘ve had too many obscure little things happen that 10x the amount of time needed so I always plan for the worst case.

Also, my point was that people are being massively overreacting due to the fact that my logs showed signs of attacks, not intrusion.

I run many servers and the commercial ones I am much more slow and careful with. Every public facing service has attacks in their logs and I deal with them. I know what experience you guys have but its not hosting public services.

the arrogance with which people suggest someone is incompetent is baffling. Not talking about you but quite a number of comments where condescending af.

Thanks for the advice with ansible. I might actually give this a go.

haui_lemmy OP ,
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Thanks for elaborating! This is very helpful and I appreciate it. Will definitely check out ansible.

I think i‘m probably on my way there anyway as I‘m setting up my own git forge and starting to use proper versioning.

Then I‘ll probably try out ansible on some vm or new device. Have a good one!

haui_lemmy OP ,
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You would do well keeping your condescension to yourself. Blocked.

haui_lemmy OP ,
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Thanks for elaborating. I appreciate it. To my knowledge, nobody had access to the network or the machine.

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